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Dead in Columbia dorm: ’I Woke Up And The Love Of My Life Was Dead Next To Me’

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Dead in a Columbia dorm room, 21-year-old Jessica Fingers of Monticello, N.Y., was found face-up on the floor at the East Campus of Columbia University. Continue reading

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116th Street, West From Eight Avenue, NY 1880-1920′s

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A wonderful photograph looking west on 116th Street looking towards Columbia, in the Morningside Heights area of West Harlem, NY. Continue reading

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2013 State of Women in Business

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West Harlem, Portrayed in a First Wave of Grant Requests

HARLEMGRANTS-articleLargeSome of the requests conjure images of a worn-down West Harlem: efforts to revive the arts in faltering schools; raise reading and writing skills for kindergarten and first-grade students; and help people with criminal records find jobs. Continue reading

Black Architects Say Columbia Shut Them Out of $6.3 Billion Harlem Campus

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They’ve worked with world-famous architectural firms such as I.M. Pei & Partners and designed projects for the Durst Organization that cost millions of dollars. Continue reading

Free Columbia University Interns!

kenneth cole internships at columbia UThe Kenneth Cole Community Engagement Program at Columbia University is inviting applications from organizations interested in hosting a team of Kenneth Cole Fellows to complete a summer internship project! This program strives to provide Columbia undergraduates with practical experience and insight in becoming community leaders and effective agents of change. Continue reading

West Harlem Development Corporation Assures Of Progress

About 275 people packed into the West Harlem Development Corporation’s 2012 Pubic Meeting on Thursday, Oct. 25, many walking away feeling confident and optimistic about the organization’s plans to fund important initiatives in the community. Continue reading

Happy Birthday To Harlemite and Jazz Man Benny Carter

Bennett Lester Carter (August 8, 1907 – July 12, 2003) was an American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, trumpeter, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Continue reading

Danny Tisdale's and IUME's Harlem AIDS Blanket Brings Hope (in Harlem)

AIDS has been labeled an epidemic in the black communities of Harlem, but it’s really the stigma, the prejudice and the silence that kills. Continue reading

Ishmael Osekre: What My Mama Told Me (video)

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Ishmael Osekre arrived in New York with $30, no bank account and no idea how he would pay for his tuition at Columbia University.  Continue reading